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A plant enemy’s enemy

By Jill Richardson / April 3, 2013

When eaten by caterpillars, some plants can emit chemicals that signal the help of special wasps. Once called, a wasp lays its egg inside a caterpillar. Credit: Ted Turlings

Plants use chemicals to recruit help in fighting off pests

Posted in Agriculture, Chemistry, Plants | Tagged Ali Zakir, Amanuel Tamiru, Barack Obama, botany, caterpillars, corn, corn rootworms, cotton, crop protection, Desmodium, Egyptian cotton leafworm, entomology, fall armyworm, farming, feature, features, insect communications, insects, integrated pest management, John Pickett, Kenya, larvae, Marcel Dicke, Maurice W. Sabelis, mite, moths, Napier grass, nematodes, pesticides, pests, plant breeding, plant communications, plant protection, plant signaling, plants, predation, predators, priming, push-pull, Sarah Obama, stem borer, Ted Turlings, Thomas Degen, topstories, volatiles, wasp, Zeyaur Khan

Groundwater removal linked to quake

By Stephen Ornes / November 8, 2012

This map shows where a deadly earthquake struck in southeastern Spain in May 2011. Scientists say the earthquake was triggered by groundwater removal. Credit: USGS

Pumping water from the ground in southeastern Spain may have triggered a deadly 2011 earthquake there

Posted in Earth | Tagged earthquakes, farming, getinvolved, groundwater, human effects, Lorca, Pablo González, seismic waves, seismology, Spain, University of Western Ontario

Building Stonehenge

By Stephen Ornes / September 27, 2012

Stonehenge may have been built by animal herders, not farmers, according to a new study. Credit: Matthew Brennan

A new study of ancient crops may identify the laborers behind Britain’s most famous stone monument

Posted in Ancient Times | Tagged Alasdair Whittle, ancient people, archaeology, Cardiff University, Chris Stevens, climate change, cultivators, Dorian Fuller, farmers, farming, getinvolved, Great Britain, herders, hunter-gatherers, livestock, pastoralist, prehistory, Stonehenge, University College London, Wessex Archaeology

World’s oldest pots

By Erin Wayman / July 6, 2012

One of many 20,000-year-old pottery fragments found in a Chinese cave. Credit: Science/AAAS

Ice age people made cookware long before the rise of farming

Posted in Ancient Times | Tagged alcohol, Anna Belfer-Cohen, archaeology, Asia, bone marrow, cave, China, clay, cooking, farming, getinvolved, humans, hunter-gatherers, ice age, pot, pottery, T. Douglas Price, Xianrendong Cave, Xiaohong Wu, Zhijun Zhao